Israel massacred
60 Palestinians on Monday, including seven children, bringing to 101
the total number of Palestinians Israel has killed since Palestinians
began the Great March on March 30. In that period, Israel has killed 11 Palestinian children, two journalists, one person on crutches and three persons with disabilities.
Monday’s casualties included 1,861 wounded, bringing total injuries
inflicted by Israel to 6,938 people, including 3,615 with live fire.
Israel is using bullets designed to expand inside the body, causing
maximum, often permanent damage:
“The injuries sustained by patients will leave most with serious, long-term physical disabilities,” says Médecins Sans Frontières (Ha’aretz, 4/22/18).
On the 70th anniversary of Israel’s so-called “declaration of
independence,” the United States opened its new embassy in Jerusalem—a
city Israel claims as its own, despite what international law says on the matter—and Palestinians undertook unarmed protests
in reaction to the move and as part of the Great Return March. Although
to this point, the only Israeli casualty during the entire cycle of
demonstrations has been one “lightly wounded” soldier, considerable space in coverage of the massacres is devoted to blaming Palestinians for their own slaughter.
